or a college kid with too much homework, no turtle.
My backpack is already like, kind of heavy.
So I'm used to that, but this is like heavier and it's bigger back here.
So I feel like, like a tortoise, almost 50 pounds.
Yeah.
Can you run full speed while leaning back?
I know, imagine flipping with this.
Yeah right.
Cool.
Well, I hope this isn't too windy, but we're out here in Broussard, Louisiana
in the middle of an airfield about to do some, motor wait, what is it called?
Exactly.
Powered paragliding.
Yeah, sure.
This is somewhat windy, but
it should be fun?
Fly at Wyatt.
Wyatt is a, I'm going to call you a pro paraglider.
Yeah, really?
Yeah.
And yeah.
And an actor also on video today.
Barrel roll.
Alright, barrel roll it is.
I'm the youngest person in the world to do barrel roll and now I've
just got to prove it with a video.
There you go.
How old are you?
10.
Yeah.
I thought the center wasn't working.
What kind of things do you say on the helmet?
Look, the barn.
All right.
So this is the man, Matt, the one that is going to be teaching
me how to do this today.
The one that taught Wyatt and his mom and dad.
So now it's go time.
So it's really not even that windy.
And this is wow.
Yeah.
All of them.
You might know that
a mess up if you want it to come up really fast and you don't use
your breaks this is what happens.
There's an art to using the brakes.
Yeah.
If it comes up, if it comes up smoke, it doesn't pass me up.
See, I didn't need to use the brakes.
So there's an art to it.
It's a finesse kind of deal.
Yeah.
He gets the speed and we use motors.
So when we get the motor on your back, When we fly together,
we have a big fan on my back,
get it up like this, me and you start running.
The motor starts pushing us.
Okay.
I hope it's not too windy in the sun.
The sun is at my back.
So hopefully this isn't too, maybe I'll turn this way.
I don't know.
I just don't want the wind in the microphone right now.
Matt is currently teaching another gentlemen how to,
do what they call kiting.
So they like.
I dunno, similar to flying a kite, except you're flying just
this parachute with your body.
It's crazy.
It's pretty cool.
Wyatt is working on it right now.
yeah, this place is awesome and Matt will be helping me out shortly and then
we're gonna actually go up into the air.
So sweet.
Okay.
Well, I have grabbed my little like microphone thing to attach to hopefully
mitigate some of this wind noise.
Cause I know it's probably a noxious, so.
Okay, try again, I guess.
Shit.
All right.
So why it is trying to land on.
Top of his, Oh, there it goes.
There it goes.
Flip-flops
good.
All right.
Third time's a charm.
Watch out dog.
all right.
Some ads on a radio.
It's a newer pilot mats.
Matt's on there telling him.
Giving him some directions.
Okay.
The limit of, uh, going away from here you want to point back this way?
Oh
my head's so big.
I need to make this smaller.
Yeah, we see it.
Jason.
Good.
Find it out.
I question, I know I'm way too hot.
So one, three 60 right now with put me right or about too.
Huh?
You're actually doing great by the way, because the headwind
smash, Sam.
nice color.
okay.
Wyatt, Wyatt.
And actually, um, your right hand is going to say this one in your left.
We'll take that.
And so it's going to be opposite.
Yeah, I know.
I forgot it straight.
So it is still okay.
But that way later we can turn and have fun go forward.
Hey, they just tell you on the front and back up hard and you
pull harder and it comes up.
It's all good.
Not let it pass you on the way you release and you pull, break it.
It's going fat and break his bow.
Break his boat, right.
Takes about five or 10 tries bringing it up and down.
So does it matter what I grabbed when I pulled them up?
Really in the blue area.
Okay.
So
Check it out for a second.
And then when it fell over, you walked away from it as lunch.
So you're supposed to go just this way into the wind to keep the wind,
always the air right in there.
Yep.
Good land and not what I was trying to do.
I know you wanted it up, but so
bring your hands up.
Whoo.
I just want to take flight
and you release it.
Keep your speed.
This is fun and it's more of a workout than I expected, trying to learn once
you get the hang of it with like an actual engine, like Wyatt is doing, it's
obviously still a lot of work, but it doesn't require quite as much running more
so floating and flying, which is awesome.
But I got to work for it now.
Kim to get a quick drink of water, a little water break.
And Matt said that I'm about to go up into the air.
obviously like tandem with him.
There's no, actually do that on my own yet.
I would very likely die.
So I'm not trying to be up thousands of feet in the air right now.
They're not up that high, but I guess they do get up to like up to almost
10,000 feet sometimes, which is nuts.
So I'm not going to go like three, 400, maybe 500 feet.
I'm down to go.
We'll see, we have to run together.
And get up to speed defy and just keep on running and it gets easier and you start
getting picked up and you keep running and you're steering correct on the steering.
All right.
Good.
I'm like, because if I'm steering or not, you're making it up
shuttles about to take them off.
Watch
remind me of like the headphones when we shoot guns, like you can hear.
Each other talk, but that's it, it's weird.
No matter how far you are, it's hard.
Cause it's only for the people behind you.
You can't tell who's talking because it all sounds like the same spot.
I'm nervous.
Your mats hands.
Well, actually I should, I shouldn't be nervous because you are in bed.
I trust him.
Yeah, we're good.
It's gonna be fun.
Alright, so he can stand tall like that.
You're good.
If it feels really tight, it's not extra tight.
I mean, I got some thick thighs, but it's not that bad.
It's going to pick you up right here.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you're going to feel that when we're running.
Okay.
And just keep, keep waddling along.
. Okay.
I think if you try just a natural run, you know, upright.
I don't have to sprint.
Do you want me to sprint?
Kind of sort of to get up to speed?
You're behind me.
Yeah.
Okay.
That was awesome.
I want to do this every day.
How did I know you were going to say that too?
Cool.
Yeah, that was great.
We nailed it.
He flew me around.
Yeah, I was flying for awhile.
Yeah.
I'll trust you to, I don't know about, I can't even drive a car, so
yeah.
Well, it was a successful day.
Yeah.
You've been out here a few days.
Today was the day one for me.
They want to have many because I'm coming back.